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" I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'. "
Ted Turner
Nothing
Put
Say
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" I wanted to better inform the world. "
Ted Turner
Better
Inform
Wanted
" The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone. "
Ted Turner
Environment
Life
Rest
" I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack. "
Ted Turner
Stop
Safe
Believe
" It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel. "
Ted Turner
Government
Asking
Struggle
" I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it. "
Ted Turner
Business
Old
Years
" It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels. "
Ted Turner
Move
Going
Energy
" If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold. "
Ted Turner
You
News
Crisis
" If I had any humility I would be perfect. "
Ted Turner
Had
Would
Perfect
" The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that. "
Ted Turner
You
Got
Know
" I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy. "
Ted Turner
Good
Wisdom
Experience
" I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first. "
Ted Turner
Together
Think
Believe
" If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. "
Ted Turner
Only
Had
Perfect
" At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent. "
Ted Turner
Merger
Down
Had
" The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy. "
Ted Turner
Own
Control
People
" The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about. "
Ted Turner
News
Television
Know
" The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better. "
Ted Turner
Winning
Better
Learned
" To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless. "
Ted Turner
Cell Phone
You
Be Happy
" Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. "
Ted Turner
Keep
Game
Life Is A
" We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces. "
Ted Turner
Rules
New
Will
" I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world. "
Ted Turner
Dangerous
World
Think
" Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world. "
Ted Turner
Three
World
Race
" When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit. "
Ted Turner
Time
Slow
Rest
" I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news. "
Ted Turner
Years
Watch
Want
" All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it. "
Ted Turner
People
Said
Going
" You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for. "
Ted Turner
Beyond
You
Reach
" Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world. "
Ted Turner
Dangerous
World
Most
" I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough. "
Ted Turner
Hearing
Miss
Really
" The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology. "
Ted Turner
Start
You
Worst
" If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster. "
Ted Turner
Yourself
Forward
Dying
" Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society. "
Ted Turner
Television
Society
Started